NUMSA definition
Examples of NUMSA in a sentence
The terms of this Agreement shall be observed in the Regions defined herein by all employers in the Motor Industry who are members of the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI) and by all employees in the said Industry who are members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) employed at RMI establishments.
This submission of NUMSA was misguided because the cancellation of the agreement was an employment issue of relevance only to NUMSA and the employer.
In response to that widening rift, new organisational initiatives have emerged—most prominently, the Economic Freedom Fighters and NUMSA initiatives such as the United Front and the new trade union federation SAFTU; and in some ways also #FeesMustFall.
NUMSA contended that it was entitled to an interim order confirming that it could continue exercising its organisational rights pending the outcome of a review of the employer’s decision to cancel the agreement.
The parties were bound by the Lufil judgment until NUMSA amended its constitution to permit organizing in tertiary education.
NUMSA contended the cancellation of the agreement amounted to unlawful administrative action because the employer was an organ of state (which the court found not to be).
Any sector that has temporary employees needs to be mindful of the application of these two sections and how the Courts in the Nowalaza and NUMSA judgements have interpreted them.
The parties were bound by the Lufil judgment unless and until NUMSA amended its constitution to permit it to organise in the tertiary education sector.
Having accepted that it had jurisdiction to entertain the matter as long as NUMSA relied on the provisions of the LRA, as opposed to wider constitutional rights, the Court noted that the employer had contended that it had cancelled the recognition agreement because the Lufil judgment had rendered it void.